Risk of lyme disease: Perceptions of residents of a Lone Star tick-infested community

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 916-925

  Armstrong, Philip M ^a,b   Brunet, Laura Rosa ^a,c   Spielman, Andrew ^a   Telford III, Sam R ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi pathogenicity; Lyme disease epidemiology; Risk factors; Seroepidemiologic studies; Tick borne diseases epidemiology; Ticks pathogenicity; United States (source: MeSH)

Indexed keywords

LYME DISEASE;

ADULT; AMBLYOMMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COXIELLA BURNETII; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFESTATION; IXODES DAMMINI; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SEROPREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; IXODIDAE; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MARYLAND; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 0034762692     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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